Pie, donut, polar area, Marimekko: four takes on the same question, how a whole breaks into its parts, each suited to a different category count. Pick the one that fits your data and start from a working template.
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These pie chart templates all answer the same question: how does a whole break down into its parts? Instead of comparing bar lengths or line positions, you're comparing slices of a circle, where each slice's angle and area stand for its share of the total. That makes a pie chart good at one specific job (showing that one category dominates, or that a handful of groups split something close to evenly) and not much else. The moment you need to compare this year against last year, a pie chart is the wrong tool and a bar chart is the right one.
The four templates here handle that job differently. A standard pie chart is the plain version (one ring, slices sized by value), best with three to five categories where one clearly stands out. A donut chart is the same idea with the center removed, softening the hardest part to judge (comparing angles) and leaving room for a total or label. Polar area charts hold every slice to the same angle and vary the radius instead: the shape for ordered categories, like months or age bands. Marimekko charts add a second dimension, width for one variable and height for another, so share and split show up in one chart.
Pie charts also have a well-earned reputation problem, worth being straight about: the eye compares angles and areas less accurately than it compares bar lengths, so two slices close in size, say 24% and 28%, are hard to rank at a glance. That gets worse past five or six slices, where a pie turns into a ring of similar thin wedges and a legend nobody wants to cross-reference. None of that means skip pie charts. It means use them for what they're good at (one dominant share, or a small, stable set of categories) and reach for a bar chart once the slice count climbs.
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If 70% of revenue comes from one product line, or one candidate has a commanding lead, a pie chart makes that dominance obvious in a way a bar chart's near-equal-height bars can undersell. Use a plain pie or donut chart here. The story is the one big slice, not the precise size of the smaller ones.
Pie charts read cleanly with a handful of parts and fall apart past five or six, when slices shrink into a ring of similar-looking wedges. If your data has more categories than that, group the smallest ones into an 'other' slice or switch to a bar chart instead.
When your parts are months, age brackets, or another sequence rather than an arbitrary ranking, a polar area chart's equal-angle slices keep that order visually intact. A standard pie chart, which sorts wedges by size, throws it away.
Market share by company where you also want each company's revenue or margin represented isn't a job for a single pie. A Marimekko chart encodes a second variable in segment width, so you get the composition and the relative scale of each segment together.
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One dominant share or a simple three-to-five-part split: standard pie. Same idea with room for a label or total: donut. Ordered categories: polar area. Two variables in one breakdown: Marimekko.
Each chart type linked below opens with sample data already bound in, so you can see the exact category-and-value layout it expects before you upload anything of your own.
Import a CSV or Excel file, paste rows straight from a spreadsheet, or connect a Google Sheet so the chart updates automatically when your source data changes.
Publish for an interactive version with hover tooltips and percentages, or export a static PNG, SVG or PDF for a slide deck or report.
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Ouvrir l'éditeurOnly the hole in the middle. A donut chart removes the center of the circle, which frees up space for a total or a label and slightly de-emphasizes the angle comparison that's the hardest part of reading a pie chart. The underlying data and slice proportions work identically in both.
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